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Originally Posted by OldDutch
Unlike BB, I think Win 7 can be a great alternative. However, I think MSFT needed to execute this perfectly to get people to look away from Android and Apple. Why on earth they didn't come out with one model, that was stacked, designed well, with updates right from MSFT is beyond me.
They should have taken a page from Apple, got one solid experience out there, and grow from there. Trying to take on Android at their own game right now is next to impossible, and I think MSFT has done too little to distinguish itself from them. Even if they have the better product.
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Well, up until now all of my updates have come from Microsoft through the Zune interface. The major update, Mango, was available the day of its release. The change toward carrier driven updates is new, as many of the comments indicate, and definitely unwelcome.
As for why the didn't get one top end flagship product at the start a la Apple -- because they don't make their own hardware, and thus are reliant of hardware manufacturers to choose to put Windows Phone 7 on their top phones.
As to distinguishing itself from Android, the OS does that in spades, generally to very good reviews. How else is a purely OS company to do it?